Bilangan 4:11
Konteks4:11 “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
Bilangan 14:2
Konteks14:2 And all the Israelites murmured 1 against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died 2 in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished 3 in this wilderness!
Bilangan 14:12
Konteks14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, 4 and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
Bilangan 30:8
Konteks30:8 But if when her husband hears it he overrules her, then he will nullify 5 the vow she has taken, 6 and whatever she uttered impulsively which she has pledged for herself. And the Lord will release her from it.
[14:2] 1 tn The Hebrew verb “to murmur” is לוּן (lun). It is a strong word, signifying far more than complaining or grumbling, as some of the modern translations have it. The word is most often connected to the wilderness experience. It is paralleled in the literature with the word “to rebel.” The murmuring is like a parliamentary vote of no confidence, for they no longer trusted their leaders and wished to choose a new leader and return. This “return to Egypt” becomes a symbol of their lack of faith in the
[14:2] 2 tn The optative is expressed by לוּ (lu) and then the verb, here the perfect tense מַתְנוּ (matnu) – “O that we had died….” Had they wanted to die in Egypt they should not have cried out to the
[14:12] 4 tc The Greek version has “death.”
[30:8] 5 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive from the verb פָּרַר (parar, “to annul”). The verb functions here as the equivalent of an imperfect tense; here it is the apodosis following the conditional clause – if this is the case, then this is what will happen.
